rusty6
08-29-2007, 09:42 AM
Every year this is what i look forward too, my dad and i do our annual trip to somewhere new in the sierras. this year, we hiked up out of sabrina basin into the basin above it near the evolution group. these were some of the most beautiful lakes i have ever seen in the sierras and some of the most weirdly named, including fish gut lakes, hungry packer lake, topsy turvy lake, baboon lake, donkey lake, hell for sure lakes, and my favorite, dingleberry lake. tons of great fishing here, we caught tons of nice sized brookies with the occaisonal rainbow and a handful of hybrids. apparently up at schober lakes between blue heaven and bottleneck, which were about two miles and a thousand feet higher from us, some guy caught all sorts of goldens, none under 12 inches. We got all we could ask for, clear blue skies the whole time, only about 3 hours of smoke, beatiful full moon nights listening to the coyotes. no bear problems and no rain. hell the only bad thing we had the whole trip other than leaving was this group of college kids coming up and having to watch one swim in the lake in his speedo. needlessly to say it was funny when he came out with stage one hypothermia. anyways, ill just let the pictures do the rest of the talking.
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/DingleberryLake.JPG
dingleberry lake
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/ourcasa.JPG
base camp at dingleberry lake
The Fish:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/andanotherbrookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/anotherbrookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Brookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/derekbrookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/derekfish.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/flyhookup.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/rainbowinstream.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/coolhybrid.JPG
The Scenery:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/streambycamp.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/anotherwaterfall.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/CoolCreek.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/hikingtomidnight.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/MidnightLake.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Waterfall.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/morecoolwaterfall.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/UsonWaterfall.JPG
The Wildlife:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/froggie.JPG
*on a side note, we noticed the fish attacked more aggressively if we stripped the grasshopper fairly fast accross the surface. this caused me to theorize that we were possibly making our rubber-legged hoppers look like yellow legged frogs
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/coolmarmot.JPG
The End:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/allofus.JPG
John, Tom, Derek, My Dad, and myself down below.
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/DingleberryLake.JPG
dingleberry lake
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/ourcasa.JPG
base camp at dingleberry lake
The Fish:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/andanotherbrookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/anotherbrookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Brookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/derekbrookie.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/derekfish.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/flyhookup.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/rainbowinstream.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/coolhybrid.JPG
The Scenery:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/streambycamp.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/anotherwaterfall.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/CoolCreek.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/hikingtomidnight.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/MidnightLake.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/Waterfall.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/morecoolwaterfall.JPG
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/UsonWaterfall.JPG
The Wildlife:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/froggie.JPG
*on a side note, we noticed the fish attacked more aggressively if we stripped the grasshopper fairly fast accross the surface. this caused me to theorize that we were possibly making our rubber-legged hoppers look like yellow legged frogs
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/coolmarmot.JPG
The End:
http://fishingnetwork.net/images/tmp2/allofus.JPG
John, Tom, Derek, My Dad, and myself down below.